The customs and habits of She nationality

The diet of the She nationality is the same as that of the local Han nationality. The staple rice and sweet potato rice are non-staple foods such as wheat, sorghum, millet, corn, duck feet, pumpkin, potato and taro, such as bamboo shoots, vegetables, wild mushrooms, wild vegetables, fish, meat and eggs. The main features are black rice, Kanye Zongzi and Ciba.

Eat black rice on the third day of the third lunar month. The method of making black rice is to use the leaves of Vaccinium bracteatum (Vaccinium bracteatum of Ericaceae) on the mountain, put them in a stone mortar, then store them in a cloth bag, put them in an iron pot, add a proper amount of boiled soup, then remove the bag leaf residue, soak the selected glutinous rice in the soup for several hours, and then pick them up and steam them in a wooden steamer to get the color of black rice.

Kanshi Zongzi, commonly known as Kanzong, is usually eaten on Duanyang Festival and Dragon Boat Festival. Soak the selected high-quality glutinous rice in yellow alkaline water for several hours. Fold two pieces of Kanye into the bottom of the trough, then put the glutinous rice soaked in alkaline water into the leaf trough to become a corncob Kanye Sect with a length of 20 cm, and put it in the pot for more than ten hours. On the Dragon Boat Festival, it is also given as a gift to relatives and friends.

The method of Ciba is: filter and dry the glutinous rice soaked for one day, steam it in a wooden steamer, mash it in a stone mortar and knead it into balls or cakes.